I say we cut off his other arm, and then move South.

Multiple sources have told the Huffington Post that Sen. Dan Inouye, a longtime Democrat from Hawaii, is considering removing or altering the provision, which was offered by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and passed by the Senate several weeks ago.

Inouye's office, sources say, has been lobbied by defense contractors adamant that the language of the Franken amendment would leave them overly exposed to lawsuits and at constant risk of having contracts dry up. The Senate is considering taking out a provision known as the Title VII claim, which (if removed) would allow victims of assault or rape to bring suit against the individual perpetrator but not the contractor who employed him or her.

"The defense contractors have been storming his office," said a source with knowledge of the situation. "Inouye either will get the amendment taken out altogether, or water it down significantly. If they water it down, they will take out the Title VII claims.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22 /frankens-anti-rape-amendm_n_329896.html

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The abbreviated phrase reached the height of its prominence during the second Bush presidency. It came to describe a pointless, disastrous war. Americans relied on it to make sense of debacles such as Abu Graib and Alberto Gonzalez. And it was a collective reflex for the millions worldwide who witnessed Bush's gut-wrenching, chewwithopenmouth, expletive-dotted and incoherent diatribe courtesy of a G8-summit's hot mic.

The phrase reached its pinnacle thanks to the Bush administration and, now, it fittingly and succinctly defines the same catastrophic presidency.

But, since Obama entered office, he has been systematically overturning Bush's infamous acts of WTF. Here are just some examples from the past month, as chronicled by other Kossacks (disclaimer--I would've provided examples chronicled on MYDD, but, sadly, there's no search function here):

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Text of coop yrighted (gettit? coop?) material.  The final analysis of not even having a good back game.

McCain is going to go down as an asterisk in the history books.

Take it away Les Nessman:

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Sarah Palin's triumphal tour of New Hampshire?!?.  Huh?  Could someone please tell me what I'm missing here.  I know that the campaign is scrounging for votes like a junkie pawing away beneath the sofa cushions for a lint-covered M&M, but seriously, New Hampshire?

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Crossposted at the Motley Moose

Please forgive the source:

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/02/ mckinney-accuses-government-slaughtering -prisoners-dumping-bodies-katrina/

Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, known for her provocative statements when she was a congresswoman from Georgia, accused the Department of Defense this week of using Hurricane Katrina to cover up the slaughter of 5,000 prisoners.

At a news conference in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, McKinney claimed the Pentagon authorized the execution of the prisoners with one bullet to the head three years ago and then dumped their bodies in a Louisiana swamp.

McKinney said she heard the story from the mother of a National Guard soldier who said her son was assigned to help dispose of the bodies.

"And these were mostly males and her son was afraid to talk because he had signed a silence agreement," McKinney told the crowd. "So he only complained to his mother. But the data was entered into a Pentagon computer."

McKinney said she verified the story from "insiders" who wanted to remain anonymous.

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